Freddy Fender: Back In San Antone
Bill Millar, Let It Rock, October 1975
DURING THE SEVENTEEN years he's been making records Freddy Fender has drawn standing room only crowds to club appearances, done time in Angola and scored a couple of hits. Local hits only – until recently Fender was strictly a regional artist who never had a national hit.
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